Milledge Luke Bonham

Milledge Luke Bonham (25 December 1813-27 August 1890) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-SC 4) from 4 March 1857 to 21 December 1860 (succeeding Preston Brooks and preceding James H. Goss) and Governor of South Carolina from 17 December 1862 to 18 December 1864 (succeeding Francis Wilkinson Pickens and preceding Andrew Gordon Magrath), as well as a Confederate States Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Milledge Luke Bonham was born in Redbank, South Carolina in 1813, a cousin of Andrew Pickens Butler and the younger brother of James Bonham. He became a lawyer in Edgefield in 1837, and he served as a US Army colonel during the Mexican-American War. He went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1857 to 1860, succeeding his cousin Preston Brooks, and he left when South Carolina seceded from the United States. In February 1861, he was named commander of the South Carolinian army, and he became a Brigadier-General in the Confederate States Army's Army of Northern Virginia after South Carolina joined the Confederacy. He fought at the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861, but he resigned in 1862 to serve in the Confederate Congress and then as Governor from 1862 to 1864. In February 1865, he was promoted to Brigadier-General of Cavalry, and he was actively engaged in recruiting until the American Civil War's end in April 1865. From 1865 to 1868, he served in the State House, and he died in 1890 at the age of 76.